JERUSALEM, 
341 
dys, and of many other writers, was in fact the valley of 
Millo , called Tyropceon by Josephus,* which separated Sioo 
from Mount Moriah, and extended as far as the Fountain Si- 
loa, where it joined the valley of Jehosaphat. The sepu!« 
chres will then appear to have been situated beneath the walls 
of the citadel, as was the case in many ancient cities. Such 
was the situation of the Grecian sepulchres in the Crimea, be¬ 
longing to the ancient city of Chersonesus, in the Minor Pen¬ 
insula of the Heracleotae.f The inscriptions already noticed 
seem to favour this position; and if hereafter it should ever 
be confirmed, “the remarkable things belonging to Mount 
Sion,” of which Pococke saysj there are no remains in the 
hill now bearing that appellation, will rn fact be found here, 
“ The garden of the Kings, near the Pool of Siloam, where 
Manasseh and Amou, kings of Judah, were buriedthe 
cemetery of the kings of Judah; the traces and remains of 
Herod’s palaces, called after the names of Caesar and Agrippa; 
“ together with the other places mentioned by Nehemiah.”§ 
All along the side of this mountain, and in the rocks above 
the valley of Jehosaphat, upon the eastern side of Jerusalem, 
as far as the sepulchres of -Zechariah and Absalom,|j and 
above these, almost, to the top.of the Mount of Olives, the 
Jews resident in the city bury their dead, adhering still to the 
cemetery of their ancestors: but having long lost the art of 
constructing the immense sepulchres now described, they con- 
lent themselves in placing Hebrew inscriptions upon small up¬ 
right slabs of marble,-or of common limestone, raised after the 
manner at present generally in use throughout the east. 
Be Bell. Jud. lib. vj. c, 6. 
f See the first' part oi‘’there Travels, VoT.-l. 
t Description of the East, vol. II, part I. p. 9. Land. 1745, 
yibii. , 
11 Se^ the plans of Jerusalem, in the volumes of Sandys, Doubdan, Qiiiaresnom^ 
Shaw, d Pococke. Those in Ctuaresrcius' (Elud'd, T. S. p. 38. tom. II. Antv, 1639.) 
are taken from Brocardus and Viiialpandus, and adapted to their descriptions. That 
of .Sandy s 1 is the best. 
